Aside wherever wokeness and the apex god tier plot armor modern day Batman has. The character is just inhuman now. He is written as always being "one step ahead", no one can even get a hit on him and he's gone completely sociopath. Older written Bruce Wayne was still a guy at the end of the day, trying to have relationships and a life. Older Wayne also would make mistakes, walk into traps, get captured, and even the Penguin could get a few strikes on him.
No he's just unstoppable and can defeat Superman is a even one on one. His Bat Computer needs to go too because all his detective work is done for him on a machine instead of investigating crime scenes himself.
Thank you for reading my stupid rant, hope you guys have a nice day and hopefully have something fun to do.
Maybe you are too old and too developed as an adult to be entertained by children's stories that were written by people who are now your moral and intellectual lessers. This goes for comics, books, games. Your love for tbe material can hold you over for a while, but for how long, in the face of however much mediocrity?
I usually hate this line of thought ("youre an adult, stop watching kids cartoons") but the raw fact is that if you are approaching or past your mid twenties and you have an above average IQ you are competitive with the people make capeslop as part of a 9-to-5 job working on a product that targets a young audience.
When you do your 9-to-5 job, are you exactly straining your brain to its fullest extent to provide the absolute highest quality work you can? Probably not. Neither are the people making capeslop, be it a comic or a game or a film.
Add to that the fact that they could very well be less intelligent than you by real metrics, in fact they might even be members of a race that does not share the full extent of your heriditary talent for abstraction. Many may be younger than you and if you are a real human person in this world they are almost certainly less wise and experienced than you are, because many if not most of them are nepo children who never had any difficulties to overcome that weren't made up on Tumblr.
This is part of the reason I LOVE (LOVE LOVE LOVE) the stories and media that I do love. Things made by wise men who are dead now, who have wisdom that I don't have, who can only teach me through what they've recorded. By contrast, there is nothing you'll absorb from a modern Batman series that you wouldnt pick up from bots and 14 year old redditors in /r/politics.
So I thought when trying to read new Donald Duck comics. But then I tried re-reading some old ones and nope, they are still good.
Barks is basically a cartoon wiseman though